The evening world. Newspaper, June 7, 1921, Page 18

18 LIGHTWEIGHT CHAMPION DEFEATS KANSA 9 NARD RETAINS HS TITLE BUT FAILS 10 FLOOR ROCKY IN TWELVE-ROUND CONTEST Although Beaten in Every Stanza, Contender Puts Up Good Fight and Makes Titleholder, Realizing Danger, Play to Safety—Kansas Took Many Stiff Punches, but Did Not Back Up to Any Extent—Crowd Jams Arena. By Robert Edgren. Benny Leonard's escutcheon is still without a blot, although Rocky Kansas did his plunging best in the ball park at Harrison last night to make it look like a discarded wash boiler lid. It isn’t any fault of Kansas that Benny still wears the Nghtweight erevn. He was. dangerous every minute, and nobody knew it better tian Benny. Our champion for once was well content to outpoint his man and take as few risks as possible. At times Benny gew peevish and cut loose for a few seconds, socking Kansas and trying to knock him for a goal, as we say in sporting circles. These peevish periods of Benny's never lasted more than a few seconds, for the simple reason that the harder he nit Kansas the harder Kansas rushed him. Benny 18 acenstomed to having them flop when he snaps over the right sort of a punch. It was discouraging to hit Kansas right on the button with no more effect than if he had thumped a block of wood. Kansas forced the fighting practi-¢——————______ cally all the way, landed many hard|pby. It waa to be eo through much Blows and was generally annoying, et fend ge Pesmtrapid the Geer 4 le man plunge — ia a ae. Saat tb, his heavywoight's shoulders heav- » |ing and his great, long, thick arms offense, was masterly. He avoided &! gwinging. Now and then he landed fot of trouble with apparent ease and/a blow, but often Leonard slipped his hitting was cleaner. Leonard] side and countered him neatly, and was mote careful than I've ever ecen| smiled, Once in a while Leonard, him before in a fight and he was con-| Stung, flared into action for a few timually warned by his seconds that | Seconds and drove in thumping blows, Kansas was “dangerous.” He won,| But his hardest hits hardly jarred the but not by taking chances in bis| squat warriors head back an inch on ‘usual dashing style. that quick, gorilla-like neck. And always Kansas plunged right back A TERRIFIC Pp beh Ale! THE wih Ailing Gata Yo fight held around these parts] KANSAS 18 CAUTIONED BY THE ever had more spectacular features. REFEREE, ‘There was an tmmense crowd. Near-| 1 the third round one of Kansas's ‘ing the ball park, just at dusk, the lefts slipped down and went below first thing I saw was a huge cloud of | the belt. The referee cautioned Kan- dust. Outside the gates thousands of | 84 who grinned placatingly and of- ‘would-be spectators were milling like| fered his hand to the champion. stampeded cattle. Tho arrangements | “That's all right,” said Leonard, and for handling such a mob were en-| “Tove three sharp lefts to Kansas‘a | tirely inadequate. head. Kansas rushed and began hit- | For hours the jam outside tte few | ting twice with the left. His second | gates was terrific and thousands were | low caught Benny and jarred him, | 730 THIS \ JERSE Y- WE. ~ WELL THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, JUNE 7, |A FINE FIGHT WAS HAD BY ALL - Copyright, 1921, by The Press Publishing Ca, (The New York Kvening World). LoTs OF THE FANS HADNT BEEN ON THE WRONG SDE OF THE HUDSON FOR A LONG TIME - Y Good BEFORE ee er es WAY INSIDE THE GATES ‘ THE CHAMPIONS LET JAB BoTHERED THE BUFFALO” BoY BUT LITTLE NO MATTER. HOW ms IT WAS GOING WITH Him THE STURDY IkANSAS ISEPT GOING THE GATES WERE LIKE THE EYE OF A MEEOLS STRONG ARM MEIHODS WERE POPULAR. IN FOR MORE 1921. : Re S(OE AMD STAMPEDE AT THE BEGINNING OF Dempsey’s Condition Now Pempsey's Condition Now | FRENCINANDRODS Shown in Brennan —— World’s Champion, burned and Rugged in Ap- pearance,’ Should Develop Greatest Speed at Time of Carpentier Battle. Sun- By Robert Edgren. ATLANTIC CITY, June 7.—After jammed against the fron turnstiles} but after that Ben wasn’t there, and | watching enough of Dempsey’s work that admitted only one at a time. Kansas book his head as if saying to form a reliable option of his fight- Good natured police tried to bold the to himself, “‘No good.” ' ing condition, I'll say bere that he is mob back, and did !t. Inside the park| A round or two later Kansas was far better to-day than when he fought the grandstands were packed tight from end to end, the seat sections were full and the crowd that had eeats in the bleachers rushed for standing room in the aisles and near the ring, shoving aside all opposition. Over the ring hung four brilliant Nghts. The preliminaries went on, the white skinned toxers standing out in ebarp relief against the black back- ground. Along the length of the @tands little lights twinkled and went out like a swarm of fireflies on a summer night, the momentary flare of matches and the glow of innumer- able cigars. Dust overhung the whole ecene, the dust of the trampling, struggling crush of spectators. Twenty-six thousand were inside, and thousands more were fighting to get in when the last ticket had been sold. Every now and then squads of police rushed the ringside and drove Daok interlopers who were crowding @ little rough, and when Benny re- buked him Kansas apologized. Leon- ard was such a perfect gent tn action that pour Kansas felt himself a bit uncouth. “Excuse me,” said Kansas. Then he rushed Leonara and landed | three or four good fair punches, and swung a left so violently that when he missed he fell sprawling to his Kansas‘’s gloves to remove the resin, and Kansas apologized. He was go- ing to be as polite as Benny, every bit. In the eixhth round Kansas hit a Brennan. The pasty color of his face at that time has gone. He is brown, sun-burned, healthy, rugged in ap- Dempsey isn't as fast as he was in the ring at Toledo, but he has all the speed he should have before the fina! drying out. He is exactly as he should be a month before a bout. He knees. The referee carefully wiped has a little weight all over, but no fat | bunched in any one place. In fact, he is not fat at all. He simply has the well distributed extra flesh he'll need to work on to be right on July 2 I see no reason why he shouldn't bit low again, and Leonard went after| be a8 fast and as fit a month from him furiousry and landed a right-| 20W a8 he was when battling for the hand cliy on the chin that sounded | championship. like a taxi running into an “L" pillar,| 1" Sunday's boxing Dempsey began Kansas reeled half a step, turned and | Sifting about more, and his brother plunged in, fists flailing, a grin on his Bernard grinningly said: otherwise expressionless features.| ‘The boy's there, When Jack be- Benny resumed his careful defense. | gins that shifting an’ shifting an’ He glanced over at Billy Gibson as punching from all sides he’s feelin’ the aisles and vacant places, but they | if to say: “What's the use of breaking | came surging back as the police moved on, Outside the ring all was confusion. But it was a good na- tured mob, everything considered. ‘There were no fights outside the ring. ALL FIVE PRELIMINARIES GO THE LIMIT. Five prettminaries, all “going the limit,” dragged endlessly. it was very late when Rocky Kansas came into the ring with his handiers, fol- lowed two minutes later by Benny Leonard and his clan. Both boys had 4 struggle to get through the crowd. Joe Humphreys announced the weights: Leonard, 136, at 9.16; Kan- sas, 184. Leonard looked light but not drawn, He had a good color. Kansas was pale but stolid. After the usua! posing for pictures the battle for the championship began. The slow rush was still on, and late arrivals crowded toward the ringside in the field, rais- ing more dust to keep the aisles clear. ends, sent down sends of voices and an undertone scuffling feet Around the ringside there were crashes now through the gates It was immpossible Strange noises came from the huge crowd. "Dhe grandstands, in darkness but for the match flares and glowing cigar a murmur of thou- and then as my arm on this guy?” ‘Then he tried pasting Kansas in the body. But Kansas is peculiarly built. He has ribs like @ horse, and they come clear down to his belt URGE BENNY TO TAKE NO CHANCES. Kansas offered to shake bands at the beginning of the tenth, He thought it was the last round. Prob- ably ten was as far as he could count. Benny waved him off. It didn’t make any difference to Kansas. He had intended to rush harder that last round, 80 he rushed barder the last three. Coming ont the Benny's seconds Lim to “take no chance: But Leon- ard hampion's pride. He tried hard all through the last session to put Kansas down. Kansas was buck- ing and plunging like a Texas broncu, Kipling’s “Injia rubber idjit' on spree" had nothing on Kansas. Kenny's best bounced off without leaving a mark nny for eleventh, missed more than he landed. soaked him. already gates going out in’ mass formation, over fields covered dumps of rubbish toughest battle of the to stampede through the ind put up the earnestly advised In the hurly-burly | He soaked Kansas a few, and Kansas At the end, Kaneas tried to figure that he'd miscounted and there was another round, but the crowd was It rushed the pushed automobiles out of the way, tramped with bricks and evening trying narrow en- | fit.” | Dempsey has an active mind and | he finds it hard to fill the time not used in actual training, File quarters at Atlantic City are ideal. He has a well-furnished house located on the old flying fled. His staff lives in ‘another house next door. There are no more houses in the inclosure—a great level plain about a mile long, with the water on one side and a MLLE. LENGLEN MAY BE SENT TO U. S. PARIS, June 7. — Mile. Suzanne Lengien, woman champion of the world at hard court tennis, may be seen in the United States soon as part of the new system of French propa- ganda. The decision depends upon \the question whether the younger of- ficials of the Government, who believe that sport is one of the best forms of patriotic propaganda, will prevail over their elders, who know nothing about sport, and who still retain @ childlike faith’ in the efficiency of the propa~ ganda that consists of bald official re- sumes and dull speeches. Mile. Suzanne has received an in- vitalion to play in the Woman's Na- tional Championships at Forest Hill trances to the railway platforms. Personally, she is very keen to make chairs broke under the weight of} The last view I had of Harrison] the tri Hut the question of expense spectators who climbed on them to| “#8 # cloud of dust is the great stumbling block in the get a better view, (Copyrtebt, 1921, Uy ober! Ratgrea.) |way of her going. ‘The Lenglen family, A ie a z quseue meee |while in comfortable circumstances, The bell rang, and as silence fell {me Unable to afford the conside on the crowd Leonard leaped up to meet Kansas, and Kansas, crouching, crept toward him like a squat, hairy gnome. mythological combat. Leonard wa the bright knight, Kansas the glow- ering spirit from the pit Insiantly Kansas attacked with ) / It was like a page from come a quick, headlong rush, and Leonard /eady deftly slipped aside and let him go two years to run, Keady Accépin Call to Coach al Vermont, BETHLRNEM a, June 7.—J ‘Thomas k for nearly a doren year h of basketball stated that he not hal! ata terr now Lani University five awaits to be ir contract at Lehigh, whi ich ha baseball and for a able amount which would be re- Quired to cover the journey, In view of the depreciated value of the france « {compared with the dollar, to the propaganda department ot ted, would be nec leading sportewoman, ; we So the suggestion has been made the Government that it is worth while the 80,000 francs which, it is a s in France by the visit of this country's Bout high board fence on the other, insur- ing privacy. The only thing that bothers Dempsey is meeting crowds of visitors. He slips away whenever he can do #0 politely. “They ask me the same old ques: tions over and over,” Jack told “and some ask the most foolish things. I get tired of answering them." In the house Jack has a complete wireless outfit put up by the owner. pleasures is to sit ‘3 over his ears and “listen in,” trying to guess from the strength of the clicks the distance from which the messages come.* He has a library of several hundred books. Jack isn't what you might call a tireless reader, but he likes western stories. &Vhen not busy with anything else he plays pinochle with visiting friends, and he’s a lightning calculator at counting up his points. Dempsey hasn't been in swimming yet. He thinks the cold water may weaken him, although he ig an expert swimmer and always ready for a race or a diving contest when nct in strict training. | “You're pretty careful—do you think ‘you have to be so careful for this fight?" I asked him. Dempsey grinned. “The time you aren't caréful is the time you get socked,” he Jack is back in the swi training—the only kind he likes. When he started again last Saturday, after a few days’ of rest, ho took it easy, He boxed two rounds each with | Martin Burke of New Orleans, Jack Renault of Canada and Larry Wil- Nams, He was very gentle with Burke, and Burke was gentle in re- turn, barely touching Jack with the ends of his gloves. ‘The Saturday workout with Renault was a little .harder, but nothing cyclonic at that, and the champion only massaged Williams with his! gloves. | But Sunday there was a startling change. Dempsey came out with the usual plaster over his left eye, a Burke was similarly decorate. was for defensive purposes, as neither was on the wounded list. | Slam, bong, Dempsey clouted Burke | around the square. Burke is a ring- er for Bob Fitzsimmons except for freckles and a shiny dome. Put he doesn't box lke old Fitz, He hasn't the same mulelike “kick.” He takes JEANNETTE WITH A RIT HANDER Carpentier Speed in Training Bouts for First Time. It took Georges Carpentier one half Travels at Top 6 TH (cansas SEEMED THe 10% * TO THINK IT WAS THE LAST \ZOUNO BUT BENNY ENLIGHTENED Him By Thornton F isher LEONARD CAUGHT Rocky Witt SEVERAL STIFE RIGHTS TO THE GAR - A MALLET WOULD HAVE GEEN MoRE EFFECTWE 1 GOT BANGED UP AND PALO POR. THE PRIVILEGE OF GETTING IT WAS THE Worst” ARRANGED SHOW EVER— PULLED OFF IN THESE PATS THE CUSTOMERS WERE MORE BATTERED THAN THE Raters By John gross receipts, The actual receipts were $121,148, Leonard was paid 45 per cent Fans Pay $133,262.80 to See Bout Between Leonard and Kansas Pollock. The fight between Benny Leonard and Rocky Kansas at the base- ball park in Harrison, N. J., last night drew a crowd of nearly 25,000, although the paid tickets accounted for numbered only 18,266. The including the 10 per cent. war tax, were $133,262.80. of the gross, less the State tax of 10 per cent., which gave him $49,064.85. Kansas was originally guar- anteed $15,000, thinking it was only going to be a ten-round bout, but WILLIAM MULDOON NAMED TO HEAD NEW BOXING BOARD Other Two Members of Com- mission George K. Morris and Frank Dwyer. ALBANY, June 7.—WiiNam Muldoon was named Chairman of the new State Atbletic Commission yesterday. The Dew commission will supplant the State Boxing Commission. Muldoon is a former champion wrestler, who, dirring the term of the late Theodore Roosevelt as Governor, frequently travelled to Albany to wrestle with the Executive. ‘The two other members of the com- mission are George K. Morris of Amsterdam and Frank Dwyer of Geneva. ‘The terms of the new Commission- ers, who are to serve without pay and who are to have control ver both wrestling matches and bofing bouts, run for one, two and three years, ‘The long term appointment is given to Muldoon, Morris draws the two- year term and Dwyer the short term. ‘The new Commissioners have au- thority to appoint four deputies at $4,500 a year. At present the depu- ties receive $25 per day when actually engaged in their duties. Muldoon fills the place left vacant by the resignation of Joseph Johnson, former Chairman of the Boxing Com_ mission. The shoulder’s perfect because it follows perfectly the lines of the shoulder and neck! We're referring to our a minute of fighting te fell ponderous | Joe Jeannette to the floor in a two- round sparring session yesterday. ! The knockdown blow was a flying! right hand punch to the jaw that $2,500 more and got it 172 at $2 4523 at $3. took Joe off his feet and he,fell heav- | bess ise An oy fly. The French fighter travelled at | cae top speed for the first time since he Wotalsvacea has been training for the big bout. | when he heard it was a twelve-round affair, he msisted on receiving The tickets were sold as follows: raglan shouldered union suit. . Pe You fellows who are now $ 23,475 |taking off 923, our Winter $ 78,760 weight, will find us amply apn stocked with 939, our Sum- mer weight in this popular Canpentier motioned to photographers | not to develop the picture they had Snapped gf the scene and then as-| sisted Jeannette to his feet. The box- | ing was resumed between Carpentier and Jeannette q little later. Yesterday morning Georges spent his usual two hours in the woods, He suf- fered a slight cut on his left leg in hurdling a fence, but the Injury aid not appear to bother him, ? Mutt and Jeff’s ‘Daddy’ Pays $35,000 to Madden For Two Juvenile Racers aw ‘The Frenchman was in superb condi- tion. He'perspired freely during the workout and his breathing was excep- tionally good. Gus Wilson announced that hereafter Georges would appear for newspaper men only on Mondays and Thursdays. Heretofore he had been workmg for them on Monday, Wednesday and Fri- day. “Carpentier,” he said, “has started World Artist Bud Fisher Adds Violinist and Overtake to His Racing Stable. HERE'S a growing easpicion that there must be money in the newspaper business. Two edi- tors were Presidential candidates last one-piece underwear. shirts Plenty _ sleeveless and knee drawers, too. RoGERS PEET COMPANY Yoord Broadway Broadway at 13th St. “Four at 34th St. Convenient prised every one last winter when he | Broadway Corners” Fifth Ave. purchased Muskallonge from H. C.| et Warren at-4ist St. Blackford, the Texas breeder, for a price said to have been $20,000, and later ran him in the Derby. Though Muskallonge acquitted himself poorly then, he has done well in other events since coming under his new owne! ship, and it appears that Fisher in- it rather wall, though, and that was) serious training and wants secrecy.’ pao ‘Two Knockouts at Star S. C. Teddy Kussell knocked out Pat Bishop in the third round of a scheduled ten- round bout at the Star Sporting Clab last night. Buddy Sprague knocked out ‘ Leahy in the eighth round of ‘heduled ten-round mutch. fall. Another, Washington pub- lisher, to-day owns one of the biggest racing establishments in the country, and yesterday a cartoonist forced himself further into the limelight of turf affairs by making one of the most important purchases of the sea- son, That happened when H. C. “Bud” Fisher, the famous World artist, bought the juveniles Over- take and Violinist from John E Madden for $35,000. Now that the lid is off, anything may happen, and a was no let-up in the pace. He rushed and hit harder, and Williams slammed back as well as he could. A gory spectacle under the hot sun- ‘ight that beat down out of a cloud- ess sky, | soon. the four sides of the ring In the second round of this bout there was an ac tal collision Dempsey rushed in head down, an from. unde plaster above t champ's lett eye d trickled smoil stream, Ina moment the left side bbere his pringtpal ‘duty. Dempsey bam-|tientne (aneeey went Pane slong. some day the news will possibly be inered him around and around the| was uc, when he shook hands with | spread that a reporter has earned | Se ey eet et Oo isase, and | Williams, wiped his face nonchalant: | noney enough to feed a horse. Burke seemed about to topple over, |!¥ With a towel, pulled off the gloves,) ‘The creator of Mutt and Jeff sur- Dempsey let him clinch and r BOR. BCRped Gown Sh Rie DAS 12) BW — : = Then Renault came on, This . hrough a lot of floor exerciacs, Honauht is the best man in camp aside| Dewpeey did no boxing to-day.| TRAINING TRIALS. | from Dempsey himself. He is a well- | Man Jack earns thought i bet- sbi at | built fellow, weighing 180 pounds, anc r to give the slight cut over his eye - a aha 4 a nearly as well put Linge oe A chance to heal, He may not box| Tne following bt nel ua. i a He has a strong neck and a good! ys. The routine work isn’t | nd best of the training gallops at the chin and a nearly punch-proof body, | & 3 the boxing, but thar | Long Island tracks | and he fights back. \eye bas to be all right when he meets AT BELMONT. | Dempsey loosened a bit of real|the Frenchman, In his present con- oa 50 2-5, 1.19. 1 fighting as soon as he faced Renault, | ition Dempsey has plenty of time| Exodus, .502-5, 1 plunging in swiftly, driving crunch-|(o get into fighting trim, even if he| Broomster, .09 2-6 ing Wows into his ribs, battering at|does hang up the gloves for a day or| Fernwood, 1.20. his sturdy jaws And Renault shot| two. Lantus, 1.46 back good, solid punches with no He has a soft spot over that left] Musty, 2-8, 48 1-5. apologies. eyebrow -a spot that has been cut! xXinnoul and Routledge 4s Dempsey shook him well several|™many times, and that opens too] star Realm, 50, 1.16, 1.43 mes, and near the end of the second It is Dempsey’s heel of] jericor, .50. und cracked bim on the chin w Achilles—except that the apparent ily Watts, \ solid left-hand sock that looked as| injury produced by a blow or a bump | Billy Watts, ne if it might easily be a knockout. To| there bas no effect at all except to] Last Straw, .48 3-5, 1021-5 the astonishment of the spectaters|make him fight a little harder be-| Maiden Ballet, .48 3-5 Renault laughed out loud and eame| cause he sees red Messines, .48 1-5, 1.01 1-5 back fighting. Dempsey has a protruding brow,| Grey Lag, .48, 1.13 2-5, 1.39 1-5, 1.5: ‘Then came Larry Williams, this be- mision protects the eres beneath be 2.06 3-5 ing the crder of the daily programme, | injury but is Ukely to expose him |", amen iias 1.08 Williams ja @ willing worker, built on |to a superficial out that looks bad. Pshiag we larger 1 the receiving plan He landed al The first time I saw this injury in Legon. nae oa ha thump on Jack now and then, but as|Dempsey’s case was in the training} Pancake, .60 3-6, a rule was being thumped, Williams's |camp at Toledo, weeks before the back scraped against rape of |W i t Jar : E Kid | ishing swing. Tf Carpen- any encouragement out | aged Jamp, let hin it hanpened to Willard. | Fiero, U.S. cane. |2 ae 1. Clair, 1.17, 1.49 1-5 Man nye? = Jack Stuart, .60 1-6, 11%, 1.45 1-6 f SN | tablishme: tends going Into the sport on even a bigger scale. Both the new acquisi- tions have shown brillionatly in pri- vate, especially Violtmist. and it may be that they'll have better fortune than has attended their owner’s other juveniles, Bud Fisher and Evil, Bud Fisher, the colt, came here with the reputation of having vutworked everything in Kentucky, bat has proven somewhat of a@ disappoint- ment in actual racing. Evil, favorite in last night's final event, was so close to the leaders that many keen- eyed, self-constituted judges near the finish thought she had won. In any event, she showed enough to warrant the concluston that she'll graduate soon. Now there are Vio- lintst and Overtake to strengthen the sher hana. The payment of such | an imposing price is in dtself am in- | dication of their value, which mus have been adjusted on the strength of | trials. Alex Gordon, the Fieher trainer, has an uncanny knowledge of Juveniles and the ability to train tham too, go that things ought be | doing in the Mutt and Jeff menage | Both the youngsters are ready | to run, Violinist proved that when | he ran a game second to Modo on his | only outing during the early days of | the Belmont meeting. Overtake also ran once, but greenly, and was ona of the trailers at the finigh, but af- | forded no indication of his real ability | in the running. If Madden threw in one or two of his famous lucky horse- shoes with the bargain, which the Fisher establishment has more need of than additional horses, it is prab- able the bargain is a good one. In any event, it's the most imposing trans?e of the young season in juvenile quan- | tities | FOR YOUNG MEN (Cluets Peabody & Co.inc. Troy. NX. 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